One of the exciting things about researching is that you stumble across all kinds of amazing stories. When I was trying to find out about “the other side of Franco” and having to contemplate the dreadful list of the people the Nazis killed, and the fascists hated, I found these two stories of extraordinary women I had never heard of […]

The Spanish Republic and its supporters had warned that a world war would be inevitable unless Franco’s rise to power was stopped and fascism was defeated. Britain and the other western powers apart from the Fascist Government in Italy and the Nazis in Germany who sent troops, aircraft and arms to support Franco, had decided it would be wrong to […]